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The Other Roughriders: Col. Torrey and Wyoming's Volunteer Cavalry
Published: June 9, 2020Rough Riders are usually associated with Theodore Roosevelt, but his was not the only cowboy regiment organized to fight in the Spanish American War of 1898. Wyoming had its...
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Sherman Coolidge: Arapaho Priest in a Changing World
Published: June 21, 2020When the Episcopal priest and Native rights activist Sherman Coolidge died in 1932, the Wyoming State Tribune’s obituary noted that the “solution of the Indian problem” had been...
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The Buxton Case: An Anti-Immigrant Tragedy
Published: August 18, 2020Legislation aimed at immigrants may have contributed to the murder of the first Wyoming game warden killed in the line of duty.In 1899, nine years after Wyoming became a...
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Who gets to hunt Wyoming's elk? Tribal Hunting Rights, U.S. Law and the...
Published: September 29, 2020On July 13, 1895, a party of Bannock Indians awoke in their camp to find themselves surrounded by 27 armed white men. The Bannock party resembled a family reunion, with...
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The Lynching of Joe Martin
Published: November 30, 2020Editior's note: Research assistance by Clint Black contributed to this article.Monday, August 29, 1904, started out as a normal, warm, sunny Laramie day. The semi-weekly...
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Baseball, Politics, Triumph and Tragedy: The Career of Lester Hunt
Published: January 11, 2021“Stee-rike three,” the umpire cried, waving his right arm in the air with the call that brought Lester Hunt to Wyoming. Young Hunt had just thrown a no-hitter, rare for the...
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The Flight of the Utes
Published: February 23, 2021The talking lasted 12 hours. Several times during the day, the Ute negotiators returned to their camp; the soldiers could do little but wait. Each time negotiations resumed,...
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The Lynching of Edward Woodson, 1918
Published: March 4, 2021[Editor’s note: In the contemporary coroner’s report and news items quoted directly in this article, the N-word appears several times. We have used dashes to spell most of the...
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Pro-war yet pro-dissent: U.S. Senator Gale McGee of Wyoming
Published: March 25, 2021In those days, Democrats gathered each election eve at a school gymnasium in a small town midway between Riverton and Lander, Wyo. Every statewide candidate felt obligated to...
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Black Kettle, Black Elk and the Wyoming State Fair
Published: May 5, 2021In October 1903, six Oglala Lakota Sioux and two white men died in an armed confrontation between a sheriff’s posse and a small band of tribal people on Lightning Creek, about 50...
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The Miss Indian America Pageant in Sheridan, Wyoming
Published: June 17, 2021Lucy Yellowmule rode into history at the Sheridan WYO Rodeo on July 6, 1951. A young barrel racer from Wyola, Mont., she was a member of the Crow Nation, and a contestant for...
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Nineteen Camps: World War II POWs in Wyoming
Published: November 29, 2021“Greeting for Santa Claus”O Santa Claus, now we greet thee, Who can but come from Germany, We greet thee in a troubled time, Who in the great folk-strife afar The dear old...
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The Forgotten Town of Dana, Wyo.: A Story of Black Legacy and Miners' Rights
Published: December 19, 2021The town of Dana, Wyo., has largely been forgotten in the history of the West, gone from living memory and barely mentioned in accounts of Wyoming’s boom-and-bust coal...
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The Wyoming March of Coxey's Army
Published: May 31, 2022In the spring of 1894, newspapers across Wyoming filled with stories of jobless men headed east along the railroads. Coxey’s Army, they were called, named for their leader. Many...
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Indian Agent Thomas Twiss, Man of Two Worlds
Published: July 5, 2022Thomas S. Twiss had the kind of resume and political connections that made him ideal for appointment to a government position. Born in New York in 1802, he would be past 50 years...
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The Johnson County War: 1892 Invasion of Northern Wyoming
The Johnson County War: 1892 Invasion of Northern Wyoming John W. DavisNovember 8, 2014On April 5, 1892, 52 armed men rode a private, secret train north from Cheyenne. Just outside Casper, Wyo., they...
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The Spring Creek Raid: The Last Murderous Sheep Raid in the Big Horn Basin
The Spring Creek Raid: The Last Murderous Sheep Raid in the Big Horn Basin John W. DavisNovember 8, 2014On April 2, 1909, seven cowmen attacked a sheep camp near Spring Creek, just south of Ten Sleep,...
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Percy Metz: Prosecutor and Judge
Percy Metz: Prosecutor and Judge John W. DavisNovember 27, 2017Percy Metz was born under a lucky star. He may not have believed that during the morning of April 3, 1909, when, as the young and...
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The Johnson County War: 1892 Invasion of Northern Wyoming
The Johnson County War: 1892 Invasion of Northern Wyoming John W. DavisNovember 8, 2014On April 5, 1892, 52 armed men rode a private, secret train north from Cheyenne. Just outside Casper, Wyo., they...
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The Spring Creek Raid: The Last Murderous Sheep Raid in the Big Horn Basin
The Spring Creek Raid: The Last Murderous Sheep Raid in the Big Horn Basin John W. DavisNovember 8, 2014On April 2, 1909, seven cowmen attacked a sheep camp near Spring Creek, just south of Ten Sleep,...
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